NEIBA Bestseller List

For the week ending
Sunday, September 13th, 2026  

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HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Pirate Queen
Ariel Lawhon, Doubleday, $32.00, 9780385550345
2. The Witches of Cambridge
Alice Hoffman, Scribner, $29.00, 9781668074640
3. Whistler
Ann Patchett, Harper, $30.00, 9780063511637
4. The Calamity Club
Kathryn Stockett, Spiegel & Grau, $35.00, 9781954118812
5. Switzy
Emma Cline, Random House, $32.00, 9780593595244
6. Yesteryear (Indies Introduce)
Caro Claire Burke, Knopf, $30.00, 9780593804216
7. The Disappearers
Marlon James, Riverhead Books, $32.00, 9780593717202
8. Taipei Story (Deluxe Limited Edition)
R.F. Kuang, William Morrow, $32.00, 9780063473744
9. Under Story
Chloe Benjamin, G.P. Putnam's Sons, $32.00, 9780593545218
10. Land
Maggie O'Farrell, Knopf, $32.00, 9780593320648
11. Big Little Truths
Liane Moriarty, Crown, $34.00, 9780593798638
12. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28.00, 9780593798430
13. Mad Mabel
Sally Hepworth, St. Martin's Press, $29.00, 9781250284549
14. The Birthing Tree
Amanda Peters, Catapult, $28.00, 9781646223695
15. The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $29.00, 97982171547461

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Simon & Schuster, $34.00, 9781668067246
2. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
Jill Lepore, Liveright, $29.99, 9781324098423
3. London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
Patrick Radden Keefe, Doubleday, $35.00, 9780385548533
4. How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time
Sarah Longwell, St. Martin's Press, $29.00, 9781250464170
5. The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict
Priya Parker, Riverhead Books, $30.00, 9780593420225
6. The Land and Its People: Essays
David Sedaris, Little, Brown and Company, $30.00, 9780316264839
7. American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
Kai Bird, Susan Goldmark, Scribner, $32.00, 9781668031575
8. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30.00, 9780593733318
9. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20.00, 9781668072240
10. Guinness World Records 2027
Guinness World Records, Guinness World Records, $29.95, 9781806500253
11. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28.00, 9780525556572
12. Situated: Find the People and Places That Bring Out Your Best
Angela Duckworth, Scribner, $30.00, 9781668005941
13. Plot Twist: Life, Craft, and the Messy First Draft: A Memoir on Writing
Harlan Coben, Grand Central Publishing, $32.50, 9781538784624
14. The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love
Alice Hoffman (Ed.), Scribner, $22.00, 9781668209028
15. Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
Katherine Rundell, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9798217230747

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20.00, 9781668236512
2. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $18.99, 9781250828019
3. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Holt Paperbacks, $18.99, 9781250899552
4. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20.00, 9780593820254
5. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19.00, 9780593418925
6. The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), Norton, $18.95, 9780393356250
7. Project Hail Mary 
Andy Weir, Ballantine Books, $22.00, 9798217299461
8. The Road to Tender Hearts
Annie Hartnett, Ballantine Books, $20.00, 9780593873465
9. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $19.99, 9780316556323
10. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $21.00, 9780307744555
11. Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl #2)
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $21.00, 9780593820278
12. The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon #6)
Dan Brown, Vintage, $22.00, 9780593313015
13. East of Eden
John Steinbeck, Penguin, $25.00, 9780142004234
14. Fruit Fly
Josh Silver, Crooked Lane Books, $19.99, 9798892426374
15. Devotions
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $20.00, 9780399563263

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
Emily Wilson, Liveright, $19.99, 9781324099406
2. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly  
Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060899226
3. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21.00, 9780307742490
4. A Marriage at Sea (Indies Introduce)
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $20.00, 9780593854297
5. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18.00, 9781984898456
6. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Vintage, $21.00, 9780593689004
7. Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Cory Doctorow, Picador, $20.00, 9781250448194
8. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22.00, 9781571313560
9. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Karen Hao, Penguin Books, $20.00, 9780593657522
10. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $23.00, 9780307279286
11. Communion: The Female Search for Love
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $17.99, 9780060938291
12. Upstream: Selected Essays
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $18.00, 9780143130086
13. I Deliver Parcels in Beijing
Hu AnYan, Astra House, $18.00, 9781662603747
14. The Book of Genocides
Dana Mashoian Walrath, Harvard University Press, $24.95, 9780674299054
15. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $22.00, 9780385348768

MASS MARKET

1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451524935
2. Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11.00, 9780553283686
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803
4. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716
5. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
6. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
7. The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $10.99, 9780441478125
8. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $13.00, 9780399501487
9. Dune 
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
10. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553577129

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

1. Make Way for Ducklings
Robert McCloskey, Puffin, $10.99, 9780140564341
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
3. The Duck Can't Sleep
E.B. White, Melissa Sweet (Illus.), Quill Tree Books, $19.99, 9780063304291
4. Room on the Broom 
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409
5. Blueberries for Sal
Robert McCloskey, Puffin, $10.99, 9780140501698
6. Little Blue Truck Lost and Found
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063436121
7. Jamberry
Bruce Degen, HarperCollins, $9.99, 9780694006519
8. Fall Days with Frog and Toad
Arnold Lobel, Arnold Lobel (Illus.), HarperCollins, $9.99, 9780063495982
9. Make Way for Ducklings Board Book
Robert McCloskey, Viking Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9798217042067
10. The Skeleton and the Cat
Brandon James Scott, HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780063455887

CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES

1. The Neverfear (Impossible Creatures #3)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809945
2. Witches of Brooklyn: S'Witch Back: (A Graphic Novel)
Sophie Escabasse, Random House Graphic, $14.99, 9780593813461
3. Big Nate: Curse of the Puffy Shorts
Lincoln Peirce, Andrews McMeel Publishing, $12.99, 9798881602437
4. Warriors Graphic Novel: The New Prophecy, Part One of Three
Erin Hunter, Gibson Twist, Sammy Savos (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063450882
5. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
Rick Riordan, Disney Hyperion, $10.99, 9781368051477
6. Detective Beans: and the Map of Mystery
Li Chen, Andrews McMeel Publishing, $12.99, 9798881602239
7. Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $17.99, 9781546171607
8. I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 (I Survived Graphic Novel #14) (I Survived Graphix #14)
Lauren Tarshis, Peter Wartman (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781546137757
9. InvestiGators: Weather or Not
John Patrick Green, First Second, $12.99, 9781250357915
10. Art Attack (The Sherlock Society #3)
James Ponti, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665983563

EARLY & MIDDLE GRADE

1. Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories 2: From the Creator of Diary of a Wimpy Kid (The Awesome Friendly Kid Series)
Jeff Kinney, Amulet Books, $15.99, 9781419788109
2. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
3. The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest (Newbery Honor Award Winner)
Aubrey Hartman, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316575737
4. Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293
5. The New Girl: First Crush: A Graphic Novel 
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338762488
6. The Baby-sitters Club Fan Edition: Baby-sitter Summer
Ann M. Martin, et al., Scholastic Inc., $14.99, 9781546171379
7. Odder: The Novel
Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.), Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250423429
8. Refugee
Alan Gratz, Scholastic Press, $17.99, 9780545880831
9. The Sherlock Society
James Ponti, Aladdin, $9.99, 9781665932547
10. Spy School Secret Service the Graphic Novel 
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9781665956635

YOUNG ADULT

1. Our Strange Duet
Erin A. Craig, Delacorte Press, $24.99, 9798217124183
2. The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel
Gareth Hinds, Candlewick, $19.99, 9780763642686
3. Fake Skating
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665921275
4. The Giver
Lois Lowry, Clarion Books, $11.99, 9780544336261
5. The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton, Viking Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780142407332
6. The Summer of Second Chances (Standard Edition)
K.L. Walther, Sourcebooks Fire, $14.99, 9781464289460
7. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Special Edition)
Stephen Chbosky, Simon Pulse, $15.99, 9781665982412
8. The Iliad: A Graphic Novel
Gareth Hinds, Candlewick, $19.99, 9780763696634
9. A Prince Among Pirates
Katie Abdou, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665984775
10. The Summer of Broken Rules
K.L. Walther, Sourcebooks Fire, $14.99, 9781728210292